Ripped From The Headlines – Audiobook Online

Ripped From The Headlines – Audiobook Online By: Harold Schechter

Best-selling true-crime master Harold Schechter explores the real-world-shaking psychopaths, serial killers, thrill-hungry couples, and the woman killers who inspired… a century of classic movies.

The tie murders in Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy; Chicago’s Jazz Age passion crime; fatal relationship in Finding Mr. Goodbar; High school horror caused by the Scream costumed killer. These and other cinematic crimes have become part of popular culture history. And each finds inspiration in the real events that have provided the raw materials for our best blockbusters, indie art films, black comedies, Hollywood classics and horror movies.

So what is the reality behind Psycho, Bad Land, Hills with Eyes, A Place in the Sun, Old Arsenic and Ren, and Dirty Harry? How did the tabloid-ready killers like Bonnie and Clyde, the body robbers Burke and Hare, the sniper Charles Whitman Jr, of Texas, nurse killer Richard Speck, and Leopold and Loeb exert their power over the public imagination and become something of a movie lore?

In this collection of revealing essays, true crime historian Harold Schechter takes a fascinating trip down the intersection of fact and fiction to reveal sensational real-life stories shocking, taboo, and more amazing than the most imaginative screenwriter could ever dream of.

This is my “I’m Recovering From COVID” book. I read it with great interest as I am a fan of true crime books and I love good movies. I started reading and found many movies related to these crimes and I opened myself up to some great entertainment while relaxing and recovering from the pain with COVID. Highly recommended!

I am specifically looking for a book that combines my interests in true crime, film, and history. This book did not disappoint me. Capturing my attention from the very beginning, I was delighted to come across many facts that I had not known before. I wish there were more photos but it’s easy to look up cases online. Fun, interesting read.

 

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